International Journal of Behavioral Development

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Behavioral Development is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Children’s peer rejection trajectories and Internet gaming addiction: A five-wave growth mixture model112
Can changing schools help peer-victimized students escape their plight? A mixed-methods study28
Assessing peer influence and susceptibility to peer influence using individual and dyadic moderators in a social network context: The case of adolescent alcohol misuse25
Change over time in interactions between unfamiliar toddlers23
Editorial coda22
Parental psychological control and emotional well-being among emerging adults: The moderating role of parent-oriented self-construals18
Adolescent personality development as a longitudinal marker for burnout and happiness in emerging adulthood18
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents16
Children consider “who” and “what” when reasoning about rule changes: A comparative study of children from two cultures16
Depicting emotions for a male or for a female audience: Do children adapt the content of their drawings to the audience gender?13
Configural properties of face portraits change between childhood and adulthood12
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language12
Children’s domain-specific self-evaluations and global self-worth: A preregistered cross-cultural meta-analysis12
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence12
Subjective perceptions of age-related gains buffer negative associations of perceived age-related losses with health, well-being, and engagement11
The Japanese empathy questionnaire (EmQue) for preschool children: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across gender11
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures11
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents11
Advanced scaling and modeling of children’s theory of mind competencies: Longitudinal findings in 4- to 6-year-olds11
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning: Developmental concepts and statistical implications11
Dynamic change meets mechanisms of change: Examining mediators in the latent change score framework11
Can language modulate perceptual narrowing for faces? Other-race face recognition in infants is modulated by language experience11
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark11
Playing minds: Parental pretend play input and infants’ vocabulary development11
Perceived parental expectations and their role in academic and psychosocial functioning10
Character attributes scale: An integrative idiographic and differential approach to measuring character10
Challenging the exclusion of immigrant peers10
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts8
The interchangeability of liking and friend nominations to measure peer acceptance and friendship8
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study8
Is more information always better? Associations among parents’ online information searching, information overload, and self-efficacy8
The associations between sibling influence and perception of sibling relationship quality among adolescents: The moderating role of birth order8
The role of mothers’ child-based self-worth in their parenting practices8
Applying the human component model of parenting to other primates: Developmental patterns of mother-child interactions across primate species8
Civic science education for youth-driven water security: A behavioral development approach to strengthening climate resilience8
The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children7
The association between school burnout, school connectedness, and bullying victimization: A longitudinal study7
On the microfoundations of the link between classroom social norms and behavioral development7
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways7
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change7
The role of perceived social support in mitigating the impact of parenting stress on children’s effortful control6
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use6
War exposure prior to conception: Longitudinal associations between maternal emotional distress and child sleep 10 years later5
The mediating role of loneliness on relations between face-to-face and virtual interactions and psychological well-being across age: A 21-day diary study5
Persistence on challenging tasks mediates the relationship between childhood poverty and mental health problems5
Cultural contributors to negative emotionality: A multilevel analysis from the Joint Effort Toddler Temperament Consortium5
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging5
Evaluating a longitudinal multilevel mediation model of self-concept clarity, hope, and subjective well-being in adolescents5
Prospective associations of maternal stressors with child psychosocial problems through the occurrence of child physical abuse and changes in family dynamics5
Birth family contact from childhood to adulthood: Adjustment and adoption outcomes in adopted young adults5
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children4
Parental warmth moderates the relation between children’s lying and theory-of-mind4
Profiles of climate change distress and climate denialism during adolescence: A two-cohort longitudinal study4
Impact of language familiarity on abstract pattern recognition in 9- to 12-month-old infants4
Climate change and youth development: A view of an emerging field4
Individual differences in theory of mind and children’s advanced scientific reasoning in elementary school4
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school4
Development of the forgiveness schema among young children and adolescents: A multinational comparison4
Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults4
Evidence for similar conceptual progress across diverse cultures in children’s understanding of emotion4
Validation and generalizability of machine learning prediction models on attrition in longitudinal studies3
Bidirectional relationships between emotion understanding and executive functions in young children: A latent change score modeling study3
The role of parent–child interactions in the association between mental health and prosocial behavior: Evidence from early childhood to late adolescence3
Emotion regulation through music and mindfulness are associated with positive solitude differently at the second half of life3
Socially responsible children: A link between school climate and aggression and victimization3
Longitudinal associations between quality of out-of-school time and adolescent social skills3
Supporting youth emotionally when communicating about climate change: A self-determination theory approach3
Does living alone mean being alone? Personal networks of solo-living adults in midlife3
Gender similarities and differences in early childhood development in low- and middle-income countries3
Trust, forgiveness, and peace: The influence of adolescent social identity in a setting of intergroup conflict3
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years3
An ecological latent class model of adolescent risk and protective factors: Implications for substance use and depression prevention2
What does it mean to be susceptible to influence? A brief primer on peer conformity and developmental changes that affect it2
Exploring the role of the “Big Three” features of effective youth development programs in El Salvador: The sample case of programs of Compassion International2
A longitudinal study of school adjustment among children attending Reggio-inspired preschools2
The impact of time of entrance to center-based care on children’s general, language, and behavioral development2
Too easy, too hard, or just right: Lifespan age differences and gender effects on task difficulty choices2
Accommodative coping and preparation for age-related changes: Results from a four-wave panel study2
Developmental goals during the transition to young adulthood2
The effects of rewards on trial-and-error learning in school-aged children2
Chinese American mothers’ authoritative parenting moderates the associations between maternal psychological control and child relational aggression2
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool-age cognitive functioning2
Setting societal engagement goals during adolescence amplifies the impacts of political interest on political activities during young adulthood2
Introduction to the special section on social norms and behavioral development2
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher2
Bicultural identity and adjustment among ethnoracially minoritized and immigrant adolescents2
How far does the apple fall from the tree? A cross-sectional study of the relationship between child and parent self-regulation mediated by parenting practices2
Introduction to the Special Section: Prosocial development in risky and vulnerable contexts2
Maturation or disruption? Conscientiousness development in the transition into adolescence2
Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood2
Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses2
Parent language proficiency is a source of variance in CDI scores for bilingual children1
Latent growth curve analyses of emotional awareness and emotion regulation in early and middle adolescence1
Examining goal re-engagement as a mediator of longitudinal associations between awareness of age-related change and vitality in midlife and older adulthood1
Rage, revenge, reward, and recreation: Validating short-form measures of adolescents’ aggression across offline and online contexts1
Longitudinal associations between preschool children’s theory of mind, emotion understanding, and positive peer relationships1
Longitudinal pathways linking peer victimization to academic efficacy in adolescence: Indirect effects via sleep1
The current practice of latent growth curve modeling in the social and behavioral sciences: Observations and recommendations1
Optimistic children engage in more constructive risk-taking behaviors1
Knowledge of development during pregnancy and the transition to parenthood: Psychometric properties of the Domains of Development Instrument1
Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens1
Wealth promotes generosity? The role of individual wealth on children’s allocation decisions1
Testing of the Facial Expression Coding System (FACES) for middle school–aged special education students and development of a training protocol1
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ)1
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security1
Introduction to the special section on loneliness across the life span1
Influence of parenting styles on children’s development of externalizing behaviors: The role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia1
Linking fine motor skills with theory of mind in school-age children1
Cultivating child prosocial behavior in dynamic family systems: The distinct role of family conflict and parental monitoring1
Cross-cultural measurement of social withdrawal motivations across 10 countries using multiple-group factor analysis alignment1
Interpretations and revenge goals in response to peer provocations: Comparing adolescents in the United States and Pakistan1
Maternal postpartum depression symptoms and early childhood hyperactive/aggressive behavior are independently associated with later attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms1
Center-based childcare during infancy: The relations with functional brain networks and self-regulation in young children1
Youth’s own political interest can explain their political interactions with important others1
Measuring communication openness within adoptive families: The psychometric properties of the multi-informant Adoption Communication Openness Scale0
Timing is everything: Developmental changes in the associations between intergroup contact and bias0
Climate change and resilience: Developmental science perspectives0
Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood0
Crying in the strange situation procedure: Comparisons between East-Asian and Western infants0
Dynamic patterns of affect-biased attention in children and its relationship with parenting0
Associations between executive functions at age 3 and children’s learning behaviors at age 60
A mediation analysis to disentangle relations between maternal education and early child development0
Effects of pre- and post-displacement difficulties on parenting behaviors of refugee fathers0
Longitudinal associations of self-control with subjective well-being and psychological well-being: The mediating roles of basic psychological need satisfaction and self-authenticity0
What she believes or what she says? The relation between maternal social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, mental state talk, and children’s theory of mind0
Emerging adults’ cultural values, prosocial behaviors, and mental health in 14 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions0
Family relationships and family predictors of psychological distress in emerging adult college students: A 3-year study0
Longitudinal pathways between maternal depression, parenting behaviors, and early childhood development: A mediation analysis0
Differences in the interplay of face and speech processing in 5-year-olds and adults0
A framework for interpreting the relationship between risk-taking and self-control in adolescence0
Profiles of participant roles in offline bullying and cyberbullying and normative beliefs among Korean adolescents0
Unveiling the tapestry of mother–child interactions through text mining and sentiment analysis0
Are narrative story stem methods valid in “non-Western” contexts? A systematic review0
Pandemic-induced economic stress in an otherwise-privileged sample predicts parents’ socialization of child prosociality and parent coping0
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts0
The relation between defending, (dis)liking, and the classroom bullying norm: A cross-sectional social network approach in late childhood0
Social support moderates the link between chronic peer victimization in school and later cortisol secretion0
Psychosocial factors associated with adolescent depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Parent and teacher involvement and adolescent academic engagement: Unique, mediated, and transactional effects0
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood and risk of mental health problems in middle childhood0
Big news stories and longitudinal data collection: A prominent child sexual abuse case negatively affects parents’ attitudes toward male caregivers0
The joint effects of individual-level and classroom-level teacher−child relationships on children’s psychosocial adjustment: A longitudinal study0
Parental reactions to child negative emotions and child behavioral adjustment: The moderating role of child inhibitory control0
Facial emotion recognition and social-emotional problems in middle childhood: Assessment of directional effects0
Children’s and adolescents’ reasoning about distributive fairness and educational inequalities0
School structure explains age group differences in friend selection similarity0
A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude0
Co-development of internalizing symptoms and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in adolescence: Time-varying effects of COVID-19-related stress and social support0
Self-regulation and academic achievement among Singaporean young children: A cross-cultural comparison in a multicultural Asian society0
Are adolescent leaders prosocial and aggressive?0
Children’s vagal flexibility is a predictor and moderator of treatment response to early parenting interventions for inhibited youth0
The structure of mental well-being and its relationship with generativity in middle adulthood and the beginning of late adulthood0
What do I want to be? Predictors of communal occupational aspirations in early to middle childhood0
Giving back to the future: Generativity, future time perspective, and purpose0
Family obligation moderates longitudinal associations between parental psychological control and adjustment of urban adolescents0
Gender differences in inhibitory control as assessed on simple delay tasks in early childhood: A meta-analysis0
Are (pre)adolescents differentially susceptible to experimentally manipulated peer acceptance and rejection? A vignette-based experiment0
Infant negative affect moderates longitudinal associations between maternal gatekeeping and toddlers’ social–emotional difficulties0
Admitting to bullying others or denying it: Differences in children’s psychosocial adjustment and implications for intervention0
How to measure climate change worry in adolescents? Psychometric properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale0
Interactive associations of maternal and paternal parenting and adolescents’ anxiety0
The impact of affective touch on physiological self-regulation among preschool-age children: The influence of emotional context and effortful control0
Reliability and validity of the self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in primary school children0
Exploring effects of multi-level factors on transitions of risk-taking behaviors among Bahamian middle-to-late adolescents0
Solutions for latent growth modeling following COVID-19-related discontinuities in change and disruptions in longitudinal data collection0
The longitudinal associations between perfectionism and academic achievement across adolescence0
A longitudinal study of parents’ home-safety practices to prevent injuries during infancy0
Predicting changes in classroom aggression status norms: The role of teachers’ normative beliefs and students’ perceived support0
Romantic attachment styles, harsh parenting behavior, and children’s emotional reactivity: A process model0
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence0
The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement0
Examining discrimination and familism values as longitudinal predictors of prosocial behaviors among recent immigrant adolescents0
The importance of considering and reporting sources of error in peer nomination research: A response to Bukowski et al.0
Enhancing comparability in early child development assessment with the D-score0
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency0
The impact of ignoring lags on developmental science: A re-analysis of meta-analyses using lag as moderator0
Functional connectivity markers of prematurity at birth predict neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months0
Linking persistence and executive functions with later academic achievement0
Associations among symbolic functioning, joint attention, expressive communication, and executive functioning of children in rural areas0
Parent–child conversations about refugee newcomers are associated with children’s refugee-specific prosociality0
Maintaining physical activity in older adults: The importance of health-specific control strategies0
Solitude and affect during emerging adulthood: When, and for whom, spending time alone is related to positive and negative affect during social interactions0
Understanding stability and change in depressive symptom trajectories across young adulthood through the lens of career development: A mixed-methods study0
Psychometric properties of the Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) in a longitudinal population-based sample0
Development of ambiguity aversion from early adolescence to adulthood: New insights from the Ellsberg paradox0
Early-life exposure to political violence and domestic violence0
Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level0
Early-life temperament: A longitudinal investigation of stability and structure0
Self-concept at different stages of life: How do early and late adolescents and young, middle-aged, and older adults describe themselves?0
Early career gender differences in job burnout trajectories in Finland: Roles of work, family, and financial resources0
The adolescent dysregulation profile and its association with educational, occupational, and substance use outcomes in emerging adulthood0
Choosing friends based on similarity or popularity? Friendship preferences of children exhibiting bullying and defending in late childhood0
A content analysis of cognitive, emotional, and social development in popular kids’ YouTube0
Behavioral inhibition as an early life predictor of callous-unemotional traits0
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents0
Experiences of solitude in adulthood and old age: The role of autonomy0
In the face of adversity: Refugee children’s traumatic stressors, trust, and prosocial behavior0
Lonely, impulsive, and seeking attention: Predictors of narcissistic adolescents’ antisocial and prosocial behaviors on social media0
Fostering children’s social pretend play competence and social skills through play tutoring: What is the mechanism of change?0
Young children’s representation of people who are elsewhere—Or dead0
Unfriended during adolescence: Correlates of continued contact with former friends in school and online0
Belongingness to groups, adolescent loneliness trajectories, and their consequences0
Responses to social inequality across the life span: The role of social status and upward mobility beliefs0
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis0
Validation of motor, cognitive, language, and socio-emotional subscales using the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments: An application of multidimensional item factor analysis0
Children’s understanding of mixed emotions across cultures0
Adolescents suppress emotional expression more with peers compared to parents and less when they feel close to others0
Social withdrawal in an ecologically salient real-world context: Children’s shyness, anxiety, and observed distress behaviors in the surgical setting0
Parent emotional regulation: A meta-analytic review of its association with parenting and child adjustment0
Validation of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in younger adults0
Psychometric evaluation of a brief measure to capture general population-level variation in ADHD symptoms from childhood through the transition to adulthood0
Parents’ cultural beliefs about maladaptive behavior in young children: A comparison across two cultures0
Introduction to the special section on susceptibility to peer influence0
How is mental health associated with adolescent alpha-amylase and cortisol reactivity and coordination?0
Confirmatory composite analysis in human development research0
Longitudinal associations between attachment and forgivingness within romantic relationships0
Adolescent leadership: Associations with exclusion of others, effortful control, and popularity0
“Do I know how you feel?” Parents’ and adolescents’ recognition of each other’s daily moods0
Early audiovisual language discrimination: Monolingual and bilingual infants’ differences in language switch detection0
Longitudinal trajectories of children’s peer play interactions and their predictors: Effects on children’s externalizing behaviors0
Cognitive competences in preterm infants across the first year of life: Assessments of continuity, stability, coherence, prediction, and moderation by infant age and country of origin0
Predicting emotion regulation in typically developing toddlers: Insights into the joint and unique influences of various contextual predictors0
Parents’ ethnotheories of the nature and causes of children’s misbehaviors: A comparison of mothers across two cultures0
On the importance of being agreeable: The impact of personality traits on prosocial lying in children0
Study length, change process separability, parameter estimation, and model evaluation in hybrid autoregressive-latent growth structural equation models for longitudinal data0
Children’s prosocial lying: Polite versus altruistic lies in different social contexts0
Subtypes of childhood social withdrawal and adult relationship and parenting outcomes0
Reliability and validity of the responsive care tool for children 0–3 years old in a rural, South Asian setting0
Context matters: Norm salience toward aggression moderates the association between parental education and childhood aggressive behavior development0
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